Portal:Current events/2003 December 4
December 4, 2003 (Thursday)
- Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller is injured in a helicopter crash outside Warsaw. [1]
- Facing the threat of a trade war, U.S. President George W. Bush lifts 20-month-old tariffs on foreign steel. Within minutes of the announcement, the European Union announces that it is lifting its threat of sanctions on $2.2 billion of U.S. products that would have taken effect in mid-December based on a ruling from the World Trade Organization that the tariffs were in violation of global trade rules. [2]
- Hourly productivity of U.S. employees increased in the 3rd quarter of 2003 at an annual rate of 9.2%, the highest since the Reagan years (Q2 of 1983). [3]
- Interpol issues a red notice for the arrest of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor. [4] [5]
- Australia's population was expected to hit 20 Million on this day.